The project challenges the role of nature in the urban context of Margate, defining the relationship between the urban and the land. Using seaweed as a natural material, the scheme integrates seaweed into the programme and the architectural tectonics, to create dynamic interactions between the coast, the building and our sensory experience within it. Ultimately, the design aims to generate a rhythm that is coherent with the entire landscape around the site, and bring in scoring as a design approach to bring the experience of nature into the architecture.

The site is located in Margate which throughout its history has had an inseparable relationship to the coast. Currently, the coast is deserted and detached from the rest of the town. In order to re-engage the town with the coast, the project is situated at the Margate Sea Bathing Hospital, which was a coastal acupuncture and a threshold between natural and human conditions. The scheme utilises aspects of nature and integrates them into a therapy programme and the architecture itself. The building is a community that embraces the rhythms of nature and of life.